A police officer was injured this morning in a shootout on Soutel Drive that left a 20-year-old man dead, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.
Officer Luis Mercado III is in stable condition after the shooting, which happened as he was arresting the man after an armed robbery at a store near Soutel Drive and Norfolk Avenue in the Brentwood community, police said.
The man refused orders to stop, then fired twice at Mercado as he was being tackled. That’s when the four-year veteran officer fired back, Sheriff T.K. Waters said during a news conference…